Fall 2007 Seminar Series
 

September 7        Mia K. Markey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and IGERT Faculty, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, A Model-Based Framework for the Detection of Spiculated Masses on Mammography

September 21      Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Microengineering the Cellular Environment for Tissue Engineering and Drug Discovery (Host:  Christine Schmidt)

October 5             Melissa Kanzelberger, IGERT Trainee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Modification of Insulin to Enhance Cellular Transport Properties (Advisors:  Nicholas Peppas and Krish Roy)

Justin Shofner, IGERT Trainee, Department of Chemical Engineering, Oral Delivery of Insulin-Transferrin Bioconjugates Using Intelligent Complexation Hydrogels (Advisor:  Nicholas Peppas)

October 19           Kevin L. Schey, Ph.D., Professor, Cell and Molecular Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Spatially Resolved Proteomics by MALDI Tissue Profiling and Imaging:  Where are we?  (Host:  Jennifer Brodbelt)

October 26           Rebekah Drezek, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Optically Activatable Nanoparticles for Targeted Imaging and Therapy of Cancer (Host:  Nicholas Peppas)

November 2         Brett Bouma, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Optical Frequency Domain Imaging (Host:  James Tunnell)

November 9         Kostia Sokolov, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and IGERT Faculty, The Center for Biomedical Engineering, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Multifunctional Plasmonic Nanosensors for Molecular Imaging and Therapy of Cancer

November 16       Omar Fisher, IGERT Trainee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Synthesis and Characterization of Polybasic Nanocarriers for Intracellular Drug Delivery (Advisors:  Nicholas Peppas and Krish Roy)

November 30       Arnold Estrada, IGERT Trainee, Department of Biomedical Engineering, In Vivo Oxygen Sensing with Two-Photon Microscopy (Advisor:  Andrew Dunn)